I am Rick. I have been a long time observer but I'm posting for the very first time today. I have been trading stocks from the Nasdaq for the past 20 years without ever getting better returns than the S&P 500. Over the past 3-4 years, the idea of beach life while having a workhorse algorithm making money via automated trading piques my imagination.
As a professional software engineer working in a very complex satellite/space industry, I thought the idea of coming up with a winning trading system is within my reach using sound engineering process. Over the years, I realized that this quest is a lot harder than I originally thought. But through perseverance, hard work a heavy dose of stubbornness. I believe that I have a trading system that is tradable. I have completed most of the work end of 2018. 2019 is essencially Forward Testing.
I have been running this system freely without much supervison on my SIM account for most of 2019. I think I am ready to jump LIVE but first I'd like to get feedback from this forum.
I am posting here, the Ninja Trader Statistics overview. Please feel to critique and destroy. I would rather get hammered in this wonderful forum than having my bank account depleted. I can also provide more detail and break down of the data.
So here are the results showing Day trading of a single ( 1 ) NQ contract between July 2015 and December 2019.